This color photograph depicts an installation view of the exhibition "Clyfford Still: Paintings" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In the background, PH-858 (1972) is visible through the doorway of a distant gallery. A portion of PH-998 (1975, cropped) appears on the left, followed clockwise by PH-1024 (1976), PH-1040 (1977), PH-580 (1965), PH-1047 (1977, cropped), PH-1005 (1976), and PH-1038, 1977, cropped). A viewer sits on a bench in the gallery. On view November 17, 1979 through February 3, 1980, the retrospective featured seventy-nine paintings, which proved to be the largest presentation afforded by the institution to the work of a living artist.

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This color photograph depicts an installation view of the exhibition "Clyfford Still: Paintings" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In the background, PH-858 (1972) is visible through the doorway of a distant gallery. A portion of PH-998 (1975, cropped) appears on the left, followed clockwise by PH-1024 (1976), PH-1040 (1977), PH-580 (1965), PH-1047 (1977, cropped), PH-1005 (1976), and PH-1038, 1977, cropped). A viewer sits on a bench in the gallery. On view November 17, 1979 through February 3, 1980, the retrospective featured seventy-nine paintings, which proved to be the largest presentation afforded by the institution to the work of a living artist.